Saturday, October 3, 2026 is not another “AI tips” breakfast on a Broward calendar. It is a three-hour, hands-on Google + AI Visibility Lab at FIU at I-75 in Miramar doors at 8:30 a.m. for coffee and donuts, program 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT — built for South Florida owners who bring a laptop and their actual business, then leave with a score, a fix list, and at least one change started in the room.
For Broward and Palm Beach owners, the point is practical: see how the shop shows up on Google, Maps, and AI answers, then fix one thing before lunch. LogiqFish hosts the room with the South Florida AI & Search Street Meetup.
Primary sources for this pull (Sept. 18, 2026): the live Meetup listing for South Florida AI & Search Street, the matching Eventbrite ticket page (status: live; offer availability: InStock), and the AllEvents mirror. Re-check those URLs the week you RSVP — inventory moves.
Why Broward and Palm Beach owners should care about a Miramar Saturday
Customers do not wait for your website. They meet you — or your competitor — on Google Search, Google Maps, reviews, ChatGPT, and other AI-generated answers long before they click “Contact. Meetup’s published copy for this lab is blunt about that shift: discovery is fragmented, and owners who only “have a site” still lose the first look.
The Gator Effect sits on a different rung than a literacy webinar or a paid conference badge. The free Broward Library–SCORE ladder teaches questions. FIUs AI 305 day (Oct. 2) densifies panels and workshops on a Miami campus. Delrays Chasing AI Session 1 (Oct. 16) is a 90-minute Chamber conversation for 5–50 shops. This Miramar lab is the in-room visibility clinic: you test your listing and your AI footprint, score what you see, and start one fix before you drive home on I-75.
If you have never opened your Google Business Profile or typed your shop name into an AI chat, start there this week — then come ready to work. If you already know something is broken and keep postponing the hour it would take to look, October 3 is the calendar card that forces the look.
Clock, venue, cost, and how to claim a seat
Verified across Meetup, Eventbrite, and AllEvents on this pull:
- When: Saturday, October 3, 2026 — 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT; doors 8:30 a.m. (networking + free coffee/donuts)
- - Where: FIU at I-75, 1930 Southwest 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL (Eventbrite also prints 33027)
- - Cost: Free / General Admission free; Eventbrite also lists free parking
- - Host / meetup: LogiqFish™ / South Florida AI & Search Street
- - Leader as published: Abhi Puttanna former Director of Application Development for the Miami HEAT; founder of LogiqFish
- - Alternate public title (Eventbrite / AllEvents): See What Your Customers See on Google + AI and Fix It
Capacity as published (do not invent remaining seats): Eventbrite and AllEvents copy include a WHY ONLY 25 SEATS block — hands-on on your actual business, not slides. Meetup’s live event data on this pull shows maxTickets: 25. This Gazette will not invent how many seats are left, a waitlist length beyond what the page shows, or a “almost full” urgency line. On this pull, Meetup shows RSVP open with 1 marked going and 0 on waitlist; Eventbrite shows the event live with offer InStock. Believe the live Attend / Get tickets button the morning you click.
Registration path that works on this pull:
- Open the Meetup event and use Attend event, or
- 2. Open Eventbrite and complete free General Admission checkout.
- 3. Screenshot the confirmation. A calendar hold is not a ticket.
- 4. Re-check both surfaces the week of September 29 — Meetup RSVP settings and Eventbrite inventory can change without a press release.
Bring a laptop, login access to whatever you need to edit (Google Business Profile, site CMS, directory listings), and the legal business name customers actually search. No SEO, GEO, AEO, or AI experience is required on the published pages.
Test It Score It → Fix It: what the three hours are for
Eventbrite’s published agenda is the clearest run-of-show. Use it as your owner clock — not as marketing wallpaper.
8:30–9:00 a.m. — Doors / coffee / donuts. Arrive early if you can. Use the buffer to meet other operators, not to pitch your stack. Get the laptop on the venue Wi-Fi before Welcome starts.
9:00–9:30 a.m. — Welcome: how customers find businesses on Google + AI in 2026. Listen for what changed in local discovery Maps packs, review signals, AI answers that name a competitor before your site. Translate every headline into a Monday risk for your shop.
9:30–10:30 a.m. — Test It: run your Google + AI Visibility Score. This is the core hour. You are the case study. Meetup’s copy adds Compare It / Discuss It energy: live searches, group comparison, other owners’ findings in the room. Walk in with three search strings already written: (1) your exact business name, (2) the category + city customers use (“[service] near Miramar” / “Boca” / “West Palm”), (3) the question a customer would ask an AI assistant instead of typing a brand.
10:30–11:15 a.m. — Score It: what’s broken, what to fix first. Leave with a prioritized fix list — first, second, third — not a twenty-item shame scroll. Owner rule: rank by revenue risk and editability. A wrong phone number on Maps outranks a blog you never wrote.
11:15 a.m.12:00 p.m. — Fix It: one real improvement before you leave. Eventbrite’s promise is explicit: not a theory, not a plan — at least one fix implemented in the room, with help. Pick the highest-leverage item you can actually change with the logins you brought. Screenshot before/after. That screenshot is the deliverable you show your team Monday.
Meetup and Eventbrite both claim you leave with a Google + AI Visibility Score, a prioritized list of opportunities, and a clearer next step. Hold the room to that standard. If the hour slides into a soft pitch for agency retainers, your notes should still be about your Maps NAP, your review reply gaps, and your AI-answer presence not a logo sticker.
Who should go — who should skip — what to bring on paper
Strong fits: Broward or Palm Beach owners and operators with a real storefront or service area who know Google and AI search matter but have not looked this quarter; shops whose phone, hours, or category are messy across Maps and the website; marketers who need the owner in the room because only the owner can approve a profile change; teams that already did a free literacy night and need a hands-on Saturday, not another slide deck.
Skip or send a deputy: Anyone expecting a full SEO overhaul, a website rebuild, or a guaranteed #1 Maps pack by noon — the published product is a score, a list, and one started fix. Founders hunting incubator admit or capital intros should use separate apply maps (Levan / FAU Runway), not this lab. Solo operators with no laptop and no business to test will waste the seat someone else could use.
Prep kit (paper or phone):
- Legal business name + DBA customers actually type.
- 2. Three search strings (name / category+city / AI question).
- 3. Competitor names you already lose sleep over.
- 4. Logins for Google Business Profile (or whoever owns it), site CMS, and any directory you can edit.
- 5. One-line data rule: what customer data never gets pasted into a consumer AI chat during the lab.
- 6. A do not touch today list so Fix It stays on one reversible change.
If you cannot name the person who can edit the Google profile, fix that ownership gap before October 3 or you will Score It and stall on Fix It.
Ladder, Monday artifacts, and what this Gazette will not invent
Treat October 3 as the free, Miramar hands-on visibility clinic on a ladder that already has Gazette maps. Light-link only — do not rewrite those packages here:
- Free public literacy baseline: Broward Library–SCORE AI literacy ladder
- - Paid / denser Miami day (Oct. 2): FIU Business AI 305 owner-prep
- - Palm Beach Chamber conversation (Oct. 16): Delray Chamber Chasing AI Session 1
Honest stack: Library/SCORE = questions. FIU AI 305 = one dense Miami day. Delray Chamber = 90-minute owner accountability. Gator Effect = bring-your-business visibility lab at FIU I-75. Pick the desk that matches the job this month. (FAUs AI-in-business certificate map was not live at the Gazette URL on this pull — do not invent a light-link.)
A useful October 3 ends with four artifacts, not a tote bag: (1) your Visibility Score as recorded in the room, (2) a prioritized fix list with owners and due dates, (3) proof of one fix started (screenshot or live URL), (4) a five-line team note what we will not leave broken, who edits Maps, what we re-test in 30 days.
Cap language stays at the published ~25 seats framing re-check Meetup/Eventbrite before you drive.
Lead check from this Sept. 18 pull to October 3: more than one week PASS for this Gazette feature. Use the runway. RSVP this week if the live Attend / InStock buttons still say yes when you click.
Primary sources: Meetup — The Gator Effect: Google + AI Visibility Lab; Eventbrite — See What Your Customers See on Google + AI – and Fix It; AllEvents mirror. Pages move. Verify before you rearrange a Saturday.
Key Facts for Owners and Search
Verified from Meetup, Eventbrite, and AllEvents primaries, checked September 18, 2026 (ET).
- Event: The Gator Effect: Google + AI Visibility Lab (also titled See What Your Customers See on Google + AI – and Fix It)
- - When: Saturday, October 3, 2026 — 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT; doors 8:30 a.m. (coffee/donuts)
- - Where: FIU at I-75, 1930 Southwest 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL 33027
- - Cost: Free / General Admission free; free parking (Eventbrite); free coffee & donuts as published
- Cap (as published): ~25 seats / Meetup
maxTickets25 — do not invent remaining inventory - - RSVP status (this pull): Meetup Attend open 1 going, 0 waitlist; Eventbrite event
live, offerInStock - - Deliverables claimed: Google + AI Visibility Score; prioritized fix list; at least one fix started in-room
- - Agenda spine: Welcome → Test It → Score It Fix It (Meetup also lists Compare It / Discuss It)
- - Leader: Abhi Puttanna (ex Miami HEAT Dir. of Application Development; founder, LogiqFish)
- - Host: LogiqFish / South Florida AI & Search Street Meetup
- - Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/soflo-search-street/events/316394619/
- - Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gator-effect-see-what-your-customers-see-on-google-ai-and-fix-it-tickets-1998486446760
- - AllEvents: https://allevents.in/miramar/the-gator-effect-see-what-your-customers-see-on-google-ai-and-fix-it/100001998486446760
Related Gazette context (HTTP 200 light-links only; separate products): Broward Library–SCORE AI literacy ladder; FIU Business AI 305 Oct. 2; Delray Chamber Chasing AI Session 1 — Oct. 16.
